Bicyclic amine derivatives

Abstract

The invention provides a compound of formula (I):wherein A represents a bidentate group of formula -CH2-X-CH2- (wherein X is methylene, sulfur or oxygen), X'C=CY or X'WC-CYZ (wherein X', W, Y and Z are independently hydrogen, hydroxy, acyloxy, alkoxy, alkylsilyloxy, cyano or halogen, or X' and W or Y and Z together with the carbon to which they are attached form a carbonyl group), provided that A is not CH2-CH2; Ar is an optionally substituted phenyl or 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring system containing from 1 to 3 heteroatoms individually selected from nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur atoms, and at least one unsaturation (double bond) between adjacent atoms in the ring, said heterocyclic ring being optionally fused to a benzene ring; aryl, heteroaryl, aralkyl, heteroarylalkyl, alkenyl, aralkenyl, alkynyl, alkoxycarbonyl, alkanesulfonyl, arenesulfonyl, alkanyloxycarbonyl, aralkyloxycarbonyl, aryloxycarbonyl, heterocyclylalkyl, carbamyl, dithiocarboxyl moieties of R, R3 and R4 comprise from 1 to 15 carbon atoms, and are optionally substituted with one or more substituents selected from, halogen, cyano, carboxyl, carboxylic acyl, carbamyl, alkoxycarbonyl, alkoxy, alkylenedioxy, hydroxy, nitro, haloalkyl, alkyl, amino, acylamino, imidate and phosphonato groups; or an acid addition salt, quaternary ammonium salt or N-oxide derived therefrom; an insecticidal, acaricidal or nematicidal composition comprising a compound of formula (I) and a suitable carrier or diluent therefor; a method of combating and controlling insect, acarine or nematode pests at a locus which comprises treating the pests or the locus of the pests with an effective amount of a compound of formula (I) or a composition as hereinbefore described.

What is claimed is:  
     
       1. A compound of formula (I):                    
       wherein A is a CH═CH; Ar is an optionally substituted phenyl, wherein the substutuents, if present, are selected frog halogen atoms, cyano, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, alkoxy, haloalkyl, haloalkenyl, alkylthio and alkyl amino groups, any of which groups except said cyano group contain up to six carbon atoms; R is hydrogen or cyano or a group selected from alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, aralkyl, heteroarylalkyl, alkenyl, aralkenyl, alkynyl, alkoxycarbonyl, alkanesulfonyl, arenesulfonyl, alkenyloxycarbonyl, aralkyloxycaxbonyl, aryloxycarbonyl, hetemocyclylalkyl, carbamyl, dithiocarboxyl or X″R 3  (where X″ represents oxygen or a group NR 4 ), provided that when R is alkenyl, aralkenyl or alkynyl said group does not have an unsaturated carbon atom bonding directly to the ring nitrogen of formula (I); R 1  is hydrogen, cyano, hydroxy, alkyl, alkoxy, amino, nitro, isocyanato, acylamino, hydroxyalkyl, optionally substituted heteroaryl, alkoxyalkyl, haloalkyl, halohydroxyalkyl, aralkyloxyalkyl, acyloxyalkyl, amidoximido, sulfonyloxyalkyl, aminoalkyl, alkoxycarbonylamino, acylaminoalkyl, cyanoalkyl, imino, formyl, acyl or carboxylic acid or an ester or amide thereof, or alkenyl or alkynyl either of which is optionally substituted by halogen, alkoxy, cycloalkyl, optionally substituted aryl, optionally substituted heteroaryl or cyano; R 3  and R 4  are, independently, hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, aralkyl, heteroarylalkyl, alkenyl, aralkenyl, alkynyl, heterocyclylalkyl, alkoxycarbonyl or carboxylic acyl; alkyl moieties of R, R 3  and R 4  comprise from 1 to 15 carbon atoms, and are optionally substituted with one or more substituents selected from, halogen, cyano, carboxyl, carboxylic acyl, carbamyl, alkoxycarbonyl, alkoxy, alkylenedioxy, hydroxy, nitro, amino, acylamino, imidate and phosphonato groups; aryl, heteroaryl, aralkyl, heteroarylalkyl, alkenyl, aralkenyl, alkynyl, alkoxycarbonyl, alkanesulfonyl, arenesulfonyl, alkanyloxycarbonyl, aralkyloxycarbonyl, aryloxycarbonyl, heterocyclylalkyl, carbamyl, dithiocarboxyl moieties of R, R 3  and R 4  comprise from 1 to 15 carbon atoms, and are optionally substituted with one or more substituents selected from, halogen, cyano, carboxyl, carboxylic acyl, carbamyl, alkoxycarbonyl, alkoxy, alkylenedioxy, hydroxy, nitro, haloalkyl, alkyl, amino, acylamino, imidate and phosphonato groups; or an acid addition salt, quaternary ammonium salt or N-oxide derived therefrom. 
     
     
       2. A compound of formula (I) as claimed in claim  1  wherein R 1  is cyano. 
     
     
       3. A compound of formula (I) as claimed in claim  1  wherein R is C 1-4  alkyl (optionally substituted with cyano, CO 2 (C 1-4  alkyl) or phenyl (optionally substituted with halogen, C 1-4  alkyl, C 1-4  alkoxy, C 1-4  haloalkyl or C 1-4  haloalkoxy)), C 2-4  haloalkyl (the α-carbon being unsubstituted), C 3-4  alkenyl or C 3-4  alkynyl; provided that when R is alkenyl or alkynyl said group does not have an unsaturated carbon atom bonding directly to the ring nitrogen of formula (I). 
     
     
       4. A compound of formula (I) as claimed in claim  1  wherein Ar is a substituted phenyl, wherein the substituents are selected from halogen, C 1-4  alkyl, C 1-4  alkoxy, C 2-4  alkenyl, C 2-4  alkynyl or cyano. 
     
     
       5. An insecticidal, acaricidal or nematicidal composition comprising an insecticidally, acaricidally or nematicidally effective amount of a compound of formula (I) as claimed in claim  1  and a suitable carrier or diluent therefor. 
     
     
       6. A method of combating and controlling insect, acarine or nematode pests at a locus which comprises treating the pests or the locus of the pests with a pesticidally effective amount of a compound according to claim  1 . 
     
     
       7. A method of combating and controlling insect, acarine, or nematode pests at a locus which comprises treating the pests or the locus of the pests with a pesticidally effective amount of the composition of claim  5 . 
     
     
       8. A method according to claim  6  wherein the pests are insect pests of growing plants. 
     
     
       9. A method according to claim  7  wherein the pests are insect pests of growing plants.